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Echelon's SpookWords GeneratorFor instance, Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, warns that the list of 1,700 suspicious "trigger words" will not outsmart the global surveillance system : "The Echelon system works on a very sophisticated system of word relationships, rather than strictly on keywords. Powerful artificial intelligence software is used to judge the relationship between words, and analyse strings of words." Davies advises protestors to send a whole series of original keyword transmissions through email, rather than relying on someone else's template. (in ZDNet)A directory of urls to delete your account from web servicesCan't find what you're looking for? Help make justdelete.me better. easy No Info Available Login to your account, go to parameters, click Delete my account.

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Li ChanDr Li Chan studied Medicine at Cambridge before undertaking her basic paediatric training at Barts and the London Hospitals. During this time she undertook research studying the insulin-like growth factor-1 and growth hormone receptor gene in small for gestational age infants in Prof. Martin Savage and Prof.The Migrants Files - Detective.ioThe Migrants' Files project was launched in August 2013 by a group of European journalists who joined forces to accurately calculate and report the deaths of emigrants seeking refuge in Europe. This pan-European consortium of journalists is partially funded by the European non-profit organization Journalismfund.eu. Subscribe to the Migrants Files newsletter for quarterly updates. They know their lives are at risk, yet each year thousands of people from Africa, the Middle East and beyond — war refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants — leave their homes and try to reach the promised land of Europe. On the third of October 2013, more than 360 would-be emigrants drowned off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. A catastrophe of this dimension grabbed the media’s attention for a while and won the sympathy of the general public.

Encrypting Your Laptop Like You Mean ItTime and again, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: Encryption. As President Obama put it earlier this year, speaking in between his administration’s attacks on encryption, “There’s no scenario in which we don’t want really strong encryption.” Even after helping expose all the ways the government can get its hands on your data, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden still maintained, “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.”

Nerd, Dork, Geek, Dweeb: What’s the Difference?Great White Snark provides a totally necessary and welcome diagram (h/t Rebecca Hersh). Since I prefer intelligence overall, think obsession has good, secondary value and find little to be recommended in social ineptitude but will accept it if required to support the first two, here’s the preference hierarchy, as I see it: Geek,Nerd,Dweeb,Dork.

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European Parliament Investigation of Echelon7 September 2001: Link to final version of the European Parliament report on Echelon: (194 pp.; 495KB) Minutes of meeting and Echelon resolution of EuroParl on 5 September 2001:Information Security for JournalistsBy Silkie Carlo and Arjen Kamphuis We're very glad to be able to provide this handbook as a free download, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've found the handbook useful, or you want to help ensure it remains available to those who couldn't afford to buy a copy, please consider making a donation here. Many thanks from the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Google: "Goggles Does NOT Do Face Recognition"The big news out of Hot Chips on Monday was Google's promise to have its Goggles visual search app ready for the iPhoneby the end of 2010. Google Goggles project lead David Petrous also provided the inside scoop into how Goggles deciphers your images in the cloud. But the most interesting takeaway from Petrous' talk was his repeated insistence that Google Goggles does not do facial recognition—interspersed by a long tutorial on how well it would work if it did. Augmenting your reality Augmented reality is a step toward intuitive search, like having an insightful personal assistant following your every move, answering not just "what am I looking at?"Gradual Engagement Boosts Twitter Sign-Ups by 29%Twitter recently redesigned their sign-up process to boost new user engagement. Though the new sign-up process added one more screen, conversions went up 29%. How? Gradual engagement. Gradual engagement is the process of moving a user through an application or service – actually engaging with it, and seeing it's benefits. With gradual engagement, new users are not just presented with a registration form and then dropped off a cliff (typical process in many Web applications).